-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tommy Reynolds wrote: > > Exactly what MP3 education are we *actively* conducting? > > Install a multimedia player, point it to an .mp3 file and get a > simple razz-berry that "we don't support mp3; you're screwed" > message? > > If the licensing hassle is Fedora distributing the decoder, say so > and then point folks where to get the stuff directly. When RH 8 > dropped the support, at least there was an education page: > > http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_80mm.html > > to help out. Simply telling newbies who want to try Fedora that > their 500 GB of mp3 songs can't be played loses their attention > rather quickly. It's all very well to not ship mp3 decoders, but > since other distro's do, we can't just take the high road and > babble on about OGG, et. al. without explaining the migration path. > > > *Is* there a migration path from MP3 to OGG? > > End users want to use Fedora to solve their problems: let's help > them scratch their itch, not wave poison ivy about. To me the most "satisfactory" answer would be to redirect them to a media player that will get them what they want and which is available for Linux: RealPlayer. Granted we've got HelixPlayer (the core of Real), but (again) with mp3 support disabled. That would be about the *most* legitimate way to paliate the issue, IMO. It would be even better if when trying to open an .mp3 in Helix a dialog pop up and asks to "update" Helix to Real, so that users could "effortlessly" enjoy their mp3s with a (small) download handled automagically and only asking their root's password for the final installation (or whatever). However this solution heavily depends on Real.com allowing doing that from within Helix on voiced non-mp3 supporters like Fedora (or Debian, for that matter). This would actually benefit Real, as their player would be more and more used by Linux new commers, however last I saw their license it was rather restricive on the re-distribution, and an accord must be in place with the Fedora Project or Foundation prior for the project to be able to include such a feature, and even that may not be high on the priority list of many Fedora developers, so it would be pushed back or rejected altogether, even when such a feature would result in broader adoption of Fedora (for example) since it nicely interoperates with Real. If the users don't like RealPlayer, there's always the more underground solutions (like adding gstreamer plugins and the like), but that would then be responsiblity of the user, not the distribution. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFIYtXM+XOp70dwoRAs3uAJ9yhARnR+5B/K3LkgQUZE2pO/7QagCaAvDY PmexuXrDILnnvHuvRv9r9+g= =kv7b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
